Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Isbell" <isbell2@hotmail.com> To: <isbell@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [ISBELL] First Families of Alabama > There are several links below in the original post to legal records that > list the Isbells in Alabama before 1819, the main criterion for membership > which descendants may cite as proof. They will have to provide their own > documentation to prove their lineage, however. > > To my knowledge, only two or three of Godfrey Isbell's many children can be > proven through documentation. One son was Dr. Jeptha Vining Isbell who > lived in Huntsville and Tuscaloosa and had much to do with the early history > of those towns, was later a state legislator, etc. Somewhere there may be a > record proving his residency prior to 1819, but I don't know of any > descendants of his anyway. He married Margaret Cash (b. 1783) and her > sister Asbury Cash (1787) in Washington Co., Tennessee. > (a source cited: History of Rhea County, Tennessee, by Bettye J. Broyles, > published 1991 by Rhea County Historical and Genealogical Society > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ashleycagle&id=I082796 > also shown in several other gedcoms at Rootsweb > > > >From: "M. Fannin" <missyfussy@peoplepc.com> > >Reply-To: isbell@rootsweb.com > >To: <isbell@rootsweb.com> > >Subject: Re: [ISBELL] First Families of Alabama > >Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:35:45 -0400 > > None of the Isbell names are on the list of families that already have > certificates > http://www.archives.state.al.us/ags/ffamiliescertificates.html > Where are they listed? > > Melissa > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ray Isbell" <isbell2@hotmail.com> > To: <isbell@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:50 AM > Subject: [ISBELL] First Families of Alabama > > > >Descendants of several branches of the Isbell family are eligible for > >membership in the First Families of Alabama: > > > http://www.archives.state.al.us/ags/firstfamilies.html > > > > http://co.madison.al.us/mcrc/groomsHI.html > >Levi Isbell and wife Sarah Birdwell married 1816, James Isbell and > Elizabeth > >Birdwell married 1813, > >John Isbell married 1816 Sarah Roden. > > > >Also some of the descendants of George Isbell and wife Susannah Eubank > Smith would be eligible, those who arrived very early in Madison Co. and > Franklin Co. Their daughter Elizabeth Isbell (b. 1799) married first to > William Overton Rutherford and secondly to Levi Roden Sr., 20 years her > senior, and making her the stepmother of Sarah (Roden) Isbell, my ancestral > aunt. > > > http://co.madison.al.us/mcrc/probate1.html > Godfrey Isbell (estate filed 1816; appraisers appointed included John > Birdwell, father of Sarah and Elizabeth) > > > http://co.madison.al.us/mcrc/1816tax.html > >1816 tax list: Hannah Isbell (widow of Godfrey) > > > > > >John Birdwell is listed on 1811 and 1812 tax lists: > http://co.madison.al.us/mcrc/1811tax.html > http://co.madison.al.us/mcrc/1812tax.html > > > http://www.archives.state.al.us/markers/imarshall.html > > > > > > > >------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ISBELL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message